Warm shifted film recipe for nostalgic retro images with Classic Chrome
Whakamuri
The word whakamuri is a Maori word that translates loosely as ‘looking back’ or ‘counting backwards’, so I’ve adopted it as the name of this retro toned recipe for styling images with a golden aged tone.
The base film simulation is Classic Chrome which is pushed far far into the warm tones zone with a +6, -8 colour balance shift. This gives a strong yellow creamy styling to most images and is the heart of the look.
In keeping with the nostalgic retro theme, shadows are softened and colour is muted. There’s a dose of grain in here too, along with negative clarity adding to the slightly hazy analog feel.
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Autumn Winter recipe using Classic Chrome for soft brown Danish tones
Autumn Vibe
Here’s another wonderful guest recipe, and like many recipes it comes with a story. The creator is Sabrina Magnusson, who lives in Odense, Denmark. She bought her first Fujifilm camera, an X-T1 in the Summer, but having discovered the world of film recipes, quickly upgraded to X-Trans IV.
Inspired by the photos being shared in our Film Recipes Facebook Group, Sabrina entered the Astia Mellow challenge. For some of the photos she accidentally switched film simulation from Astia to Classic Chrome, but this was a happy accident. The photos looked great, and so with a few more adjustments to settings, a new recipe was born. Sabrina calls this recipe, Autumn Vibe.
Autumn Vibe has a muted tone, making creams and browns look wonderful. It is of course perfect for Autumn, but will also be a great choice in Winter too as we are left with bare branches and the pale skeletons of remaining leaves. Oh, and if you are wondering what Efterårsstemning means, it’s Autumn Vibe in Danish, which is exactly what you can capture with this lovely look from Sabrina Magnusson.
All photos: Sabrina Magnusson with X-E4 and 35mm f1.4 lens
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A variation on the popular Yakisugi film recipe suited to green scenes
Yakisugi Green
If you are a regular visitor to this site, or to the main film simulation and recipe Facebook groups, you’ll know about the Yakisuji Film Recipe, by Mehdi Berrada. That recipe is a class act, with stunning deep shadow and a characterful brown and cream tone. I’ve seen numerous wonderful images shared that were taken using it, but the one subject that doesn’t come up so often, is green scenery.
The secret, as well as our magical Fujifilm cameras, was to adapt the recipe with an adjusted colour balance. Gone was the 7500K temperature, replaced instead with 7700K and an uncommon -4, 4 colour shift. The results were so good that I asked to share the adapted recipe with you, and here we have Yakisugi Green, originally by Mehdi Berrada, adpated by Giang Le.
The images in this section are by Giang Le, X-E3 with 50mm f2, with addition samples added from my RAW files.
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Muted colour film simulation recipe, with Classic Chrome and low saturation
Lomochrome 77
The idea of Lomography has always appealed to me. Reminiscent of simple old cameras, lomo photos are back to basics, with all sorts of distortions and retro touches. Not a lot of this is possible to recreate with our advanced Fujifilm cameras, especially with the crisp and sharp lenses of today. However, it’s a fun idea, and it’s made it into the name of this and my Aerocolor Lomo film recipes.
For this film recipe, I have pushed far from the centre with a warm colour cast, but with weak saturation for muted tones. And, rather than hazy softness, a subtle crispness is present from positive clarity. These are features of another recipe, Ultrasoft 77, sharing the same colour shift and the Eterna simulation, but the results of the two are noticably different.
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Classic chrome film simulation recipe for forest photography
Shinrin Yoku
Shinrin yoku, or forest bathing, is a mindful wellness exercise that first became popular in Japan, and then around the world. You embrace the calmness of nature and enjoy a relaxing time being in a forest or amongst nature, taking time to observe and enjoy what you see. If you haven’t heard about it, here’s a quick guide to forest bathing.
Extending your shinrin yoku experience with photography is a wonderful way to keep a record of what you see and can enhance the mindfulness and observation elements of forest bathing. As a partner to this, I’ve developed a forest friendly film recipe that works well in a wide range of wooded environments.
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Seasonal film recipe with pumpkin orange colour and a mellow autumn tone
Pumpkin Patch
Here’s a fun recipe to play with in the Autumn, Fall and Hallowe’en season. It has a pumpkin orange colour balance, which makes is a happy partner to seasonal photos of leaves, jack o’lanterns and warm and cosy scenes. It also creates a peachy pumpkin sunset or sunrise, and adds a gorgeous warmth to sunflares and sun haze if shooting in the golden hour is your thing.
In addition to the pumpkin spice colour tones, this recipe includes tamed highlights and a softness from negative clarity and negative sharpening. This all helps give a nostalgic and slightly hazy tone to images where you shoot into the sunlight, or with it just out of shot. Overall the feel is mellow, warm and cosy with a seasonal orange cast.
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Classic Chrome film simulation recipe with warm colour balance and muted color
Kodak Like its 1975
One thing that really defines Fujifillm photos is the Classic Chrome film recipe, producing retro styled images, like classic film of the 70s. This film recipe runs with the theme, pushing the retro look hard with lashings of added warmth and an aged image fade to the colour.
In my mind when designing this were the fading memories of 1970’s summers and the nostalgic feel of old print photos from that time. The result is a simple film recipe in many ways, but for that retro 70s look, I feel that it works well and is a fun partner to carry around in my camera.
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Classic chrome with boosted color for a rich autumnal look on X-Trans IV
Ruby Tuesday
The Classic Chrome film simulation is an excellent base for images featuring cream, brown or blue tones. Photos are muted and stylish with default settings and, with a boost to color and warmth, can add richness to the colour for a striking result.
These tones make this recipe particularly suited to Autumn / Fall, working with any golden tones, like the turning leaves. Orange and brown leaves take on a ruby tone, with a red richness like a vibrant rusting in images.
In addition to the warm colour tone and the boosted saturation, a weak grain and positive sharpening add a gentle grittiness to the result. I enjoy how this looks in images, but as with all of my recipes, these are recommendations, and if you prefer to shoot without clarity or grain, that’s ok 🙂
And the name? Ruby Tuesday reflects the tone of course, and is a nod to the Rolling Stones hit of 1967 as well.
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Classic Chrome film simulation recipe for deep and mellow woodland moods
Deep Forest
Autumn is known as the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (John Keats), and this is a film recipe that captures that aesthetic. Images are deep toned with a mellow colour palette that’s perfect for capturing moody woodland details.
The base film simulation is Classic Chrome, but the combination of chrome effects, strong white balance shift and a +1.5 shadow setting, give it a look all it’s own. For extra deepness (depth?), you can underexpose as well.
If you use this on a sunny day, you may get best results with that bit of underexposure. On dull or rainy days, it should deliver reliably moody images as exposed. All in all, it’s just right for Autumn when the mist and murk become more common, and through the Winter months or when weather is gloomy.
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Classic Chrome film recipe for Autumn with pale tones and bright highlights
Marcel Fraij is a talented photograper, educator and film recipe creator from the Netherlands. He’s a regular contributor in our Film Recipes Facebook Group and publishes a number of excellent recipe on his Film Recipes page.
We were chatting recently about an autumnal recipe he had created, and I’m so pleased to be able to share it here as a guest recipe. Marcel explained that the photo series is from October ’21, taken with X-E4 and a Fujinon 50mm f2 with a close up lens from Olympus. He adds, “the close up lens is old and a has some scratches, maybe that provides the dreamy look.”
There’s a beautiful muted tone to this, with bright highlights for a sophisticated soft look. It’s perfect for subtle photography in the Autumn season, but will no doubt be a favourite in other seasons too!
Photo credits: Marcel Fraij
Soft golden tones for the October Gold film recipe, by Marcel Fraij
October Gold Film Recipe
Simulation: Classic Chrome
Grain Effect: Off
Colour Chrome Effect: Strong
Colour Chrome Blue: Weak (IV) / Off (V)
White Balance: 5200K
WB Shift: +1 Red, -5 Blue
Dynamic Range: DR200
Highlights: -1.0
Shadows: +2.0
Color: -2
Sharpness: +1
ISO Noise Reduction: -4
Clarity: 0
EV compensation: 1
Delicate softness, captured with the October Gold film recipeSoft depth of field, using the October Gold film recipe
Creative captures from ground level, with the October Gold film recipePerfect for fall color, the October Gold film recipe
Soft tones for Autumn, taken by Marcel with October Gold film recipeWoodland details, with the mellow look of October Gold recipeEmbrace a new subtle style with October Gold film recipe
October Goldon a Dewy Morning
We’re back to my photography for this section. No more fungi, I’m sorry.
The ferns show the first signs of Autumn, October Gold film recipeThe leaves are beginning to turn, captured with October GoldThe summer heather is fading now, using October Gold film recipeA dewy morning shows up the spider webs, October Gold film recipeHanging by a thread … taken with October Gold film recipeA marvel of nature, captured with October Gold film recipeSoaked in the morning dew, captured by October Gold film recipeRuby tone fern fronds, with October Gold film recipe
October Gold in Midday Sun
With a fixed colour temperature of 5200K, this recipe doesn’t adapt to the changing light throughout the day, and so I took a short test drive in bright middle of the day conditions to check how it performed. Close up shots very much fell within the aesthetic, but a general landscape view of trees and sky, whilst beautiful, was certainly not ‘gold’. See what you think …
Garden seed heads, captured with October GoldBright sunshine on the succulent, with October GoldMiddle of the day treeline, not so ‘gold’ with October Gold
Marcel’s other recipes
At the time of writing, Marcel has 9 other film recipes for you to enjoy. Each one is a wonderful example of what Fujifilm film simulations can do in the hands of a talented photograper. Take a look, but more importantly, load up October Gold into your camera to shoot the mellow scenes of Autumn ASAP.
